Apparently my post wasn't connected to the original thread, so here it is -
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2009-03/msg00176.html
Samuel, may be i will start implementing something like that locally, on my
computer. Org already can substitute a spreadsheet or a plain-text data
storage with tables, a wiki with external and internal links etc, but it
still can't be a full-pledged key-value store (which can be used as
semantic NoSQL database).
So i would start implementing maps (dicts, key-value stores) upon org-mode.
I want to do it incrementally, adding one small feature at a time. I want
to implement the following features:
- Automatically assign unique IDs to all headlines in buffer/region/subtree
- Nested properties (properties are maps basically) - does that require
nested drawers?
- Property :LINKS: and commands to navigate across headlines linked to each
other
- Previous property does not set the nature of a link (parent, child,
prerequisite, reference), implement :LINK-TYPE: or something like that
- Previous task allows to export to RDF, because now any relationship of
headlines can be seen as triple headline1 - type-of-link - headline2
These additions do not require any new syntax, they build upon good old
properties. After that id-markers would be a magnificent generalization.
Also, i do not promise i will do this anytime soon, i'm no expert in Emacs
Lisp.
Any thoughts welcome :)
